The righteous flag raised by Lehui County soon spread to the entire three states and ten counties of Qiongzhou.

The Ming Dynasty was on Qiongzhou Island, and the total number of soldiers and horses trained by the various guards and local regiments was less than 40,000, scattered in various cities in ten counties in three states.

For the place where this Hongmen was initiated, the Ming Dynasty could not be said to be defenseless, and purged the local Wenchen military generals early, which was originally to consolidate the Ming Court's control over Qiongzhou, but in the end it became one of the important factors in the rapid collapse of Qiongzhou.

The upper-level officials were transferred away for no reason, so that everyone in Qiongzhou Prefecture and County who originally wanted to be Ming was in danger, and no one knew what kind of suspicion they and their families would suffer next, and what kind of experience they would encounter.

Even if you are a smart person, in the face of the general trend, you can only go with the flow, in the face of this Hongmen, who is determined to occupy Qiongzhou, after decades of operation, if even Qiongzhou can not be taken down in one fell swoop, what is there to talk about dominating the world that day!

Even the total number of troops sent by the Hongmen Headquarters to support Qiongzhou was only more than 5,000 people, and most of them were dispatched to fight against the naval fleet in order to blockade the Leizhou Peninsula, and they would not land to fight at all.

But it was this bit of manpower, coupled with the various chess pieces planted by Hongmen on the Qiongzhou Peninsula, that in the end it was very easy to occupy the three prefectures and ten counties of Qiongzhou, and even the casualties were very few.

This is also one of the reasons why Huang Shiren, one of the commanders of the first shot of the Qiongzhou Uprising, did not care too much about not being able to win over the Li people on the island.

Among the three states and ten counties on Qiongzhou Island, there may be a shallow relationship with the Hongmen, but as the guards, catchers, and yacha who control the states and counties, even if the relationship with the Hongmen is not close, but the relationship with the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce under the Hongmen is irreversible!

The mainstream of the Ming army has always been military households, and the commanders of the guards are military attaches of the Ming Dynasty on the surface, but what they do in secret, not so much as official errands, but rather that they are a group of maritime landlords and workshop owners who have mastered official channels, and even make cameo appearances as pirates at some times, otherwise where would it be possible to feed their own large family population, as well as the military households under their command.

Relying on the sea to eat the sea will inevitably end up dealing with the Hongmen, who are in power in the South Seas, and the commercial groups under their command, and it is only a natural thing for them to be placed as chess pieces in the process of exchanges, or simply bribed and co-opted.

The troops sent by Hongmen in the ten counties of the three prefectures were only more than 5,000, and when the whole of Qiongzhou fell into the hands of Hongmen a month later, the strength of its army not only did not weaken, but swelled to more than 23,000 people.

"Outside the seafarers, what kind of consequences will your persistence bring to your family in the end, you don't need us to say that you must be clear, you can't bear to watch the young heroes of your Hai clan die here along with your group of old stubbornness, and die for the Ming Dynasty that is impossible to ascend to Qiongzhou again?"

In Qiongshan County, Qiongzhou, Huang Shiren led Hongtang's army all the way from south to Beiping, and stopped in front of Xiahaijiabao in Qiongshan County.

The entire Qiongshan County has almost all fallen into the hands of Hongmen, and even the county seat has become the Hongmen station, but in front of this Haijiabao, the Hongtang army has encountered a rare hard nail and diehards.

Haijiabao is famous in the whole Qiongshan County, because they are famous in the county because of their family era, and of course, more importantly, their family has produced a Qing official who has left a name in history - Hai Rui.

The family that can cultivate such a famous minister as Hai Rui naturally has nothing to say about its own family style, so when the entire Qiongshan and Qiongzhou fell into the hands of Hongmen, the people of the Hai clan in Haijiabao, under the leadership of their patriarch Hai Zhongdi, put down the poems and books in their hands, and carried the sword soldiers with a weak body, pointing directly at the existence of Hongtang who was a thief in their eyes.

"Bold fanatics, although you are rampant, but the people of the world are wanting, not you can conquer by force alone, my Hai clan is one hundred and fifteen, and has been cultivated by the emperor for hundreds of years, although the general trend is impossible, but it can also ring the bell to the people of the world, and the emperor can not be bullied!"

"Although my clan is dead, my Ming King will definitely set foot in Qiongzhou in the near future, and return me to Qiongzhou a bright and sunny kun!!"

Hai Zhongdi, the patriarch of the Hai clan, stood tremblingly in the not tall fortress in front of Haijia Fort, but in the eyes of the world, it was tall and majestic, and people did not dare to look at it directly.

This is the people raised by the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, although they are enemies with each other, but in Huang Shiren's psychology, they can't afford to have the slightest contempt, but have a lot of respect.

This kind of conversation has happened more than a dozen times in front of Haijiabao, even if Huang Shiren has given the order of a general attack to his soldiers today, but before the battle, he can't help but hope to persuade the family members who seem to be vulnerable at this point in front of him to lay down their weapons and open the gate of the fort to surrender.

"That's it!"

Listening to the unexpected answer, Huang Shiren's face was gloomy, family members like Haijiabao resisted the attack of Hongmen, although there were not many in the entire Qiongzhou war, but there were dozens of incidents, and without exception, these families did not bow their high heads to Hongmen until the last adult male was killed.

"Let's do it!"

In fact, there are only more than 100 people in the entire Hai clan in Haijiabao, even if they add their family members and hired farmers, the number of people who can fight is less than three or four hundred, in the face of the 10,000 army in the hands of Huang Shiren at this time, where can they hold on for three or four days, it's just that Huang Shiren regrets the destruction of such a family, and does their best to persuade the other party.

"After entering the fort, try to hurt your life as little as possible, and it is best to be captured alive!"

Huang Shiren knew that his order was somewhat difficult for a strong man, which was equivalent to putting a pair of shackles on his soldiers to fight.

Fortunately, the Hongtang army now occupies a complete advantage, although there is a rather unwise order from Huang Shiren, but the night does not affect the time when everyone finally captures Haijiabao.

"Report to my lord, all the adult males in Haijiabao have been given the first and no one survived!"

Two hours later, at the north gate of Haijiabao, Huang Shiren, who was unwilling to see the tragic appearance in the fort, received a report from the soldiers cleaning the battlefield in the fort.

"Hey, why bother!"

Huang Shiren was inexplicably emotional, and continued with emotion: "The ladies and children in the castle are well cared for, although they are opponents, they can be regarded as the most admirable people in this era!" ”

"They can't let their families go down that path of destruction because of their choice."

At this point, on the eleventh day of the twenty-fourth lunar month of Chongzhen, there is no longer a territory in the entire Qiongzhou that is loyal to the Ming Dynasty on the surface.

(End of chapter)